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calling names

I just looked at an amazing PM, it was from a moderator, and it was saying that the moderator considered the poster to be a liar, You know who you are, my question to the fence post is, are we able to PM people, and call them liars? If so, okay then !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: calling names

Private messages are just that - private, and therefore unmoderated. The only time we will get involved with PMs is if they become harassing or threatening, and even then you'd have to forward them to a moderator so they could see what you were talking about.

However, before you start drooling about starting a PM flame war, I'd caution that it cuts both ways - the other person is just as free to call you names back.

Re: calling names

I enjoy our PM system and I will vote with Michael, let's don't loose it. I understand Blue came across a PM that he found offensive from a moderator. That is unfortunate, however, my best guess is that whoever the moderator was, it probably won't be something they send to Blue again.

Most of our moderators are volunteers it seems, they also are people with opinions too (right or wrong). If something one of them should do offends my sense of fairness, I believe I would send them a PM with a copy to James and let them know.

"It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature."
Hans Christian Anderson

Re: calling names

Originally Posted by blue adept

The problem is, you don't respond when caught. and yes it is annoying.

Its only in your imagination that I have been caught and if I am wrong I will admit it as I have done in the past. There are a lot of reasons I won't respond, mostly because I see its going nowhere or its leading towards name-calling, but it's never because someone thinks they have backed me into a corner.